It’s official: Duke and Indiana are now football schools.
Why so many bowl games? Well, more people watched Duke’s bowl than Duke-UNC hoops
Yep, the minor bowl was on ABC and the basketball game was on cable. Still! Tons of people watch bowl games, is the point.
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The two hardwood powerhouses met in the Pinstripe Bowl for IU’s first postseason game in eight years and Duke’s first bowl win in 55. The Blue Devils won that game in overtime, 44-41, thanks to a pair of missed Hoosier field goals. 85 combined points and eight lead changes made it one of the most entertaining games of the year, and the viewing numbers backed that up.
The game drew a 2.7 rating, higher than last February’s basketball game between the Blue Devils and their archrivals North Carolina.
Per ESPN, Duke's Pinstripe Bowl over Indiana earned a 2.7 rating. By comparison, the Duke-UNC OT basketball game last Feb drew 2.6.
— Stephen Wiseman (@stevewisemanNC) December 28, 2015 That basketball game was a heated overtime contest between the eventual national champions and the 15th-ranked team in the country. It was one of the most meaningful regular season basketball games of 2015. And it failed to draw as many viewers as a bowl game that didn’t exist before 2010.
The 2015 Pinstripe Bowl: more evidence that there’s no such thing as too many bowl games.
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